MCW Class of 2010, Part 3

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Well. That's done.

I know for the M2s this has been a very hard last couple months with lots of exams and hardly any time without studying for one. I'm sure I haven't been the most pleasant person to be around, in fact I was probably downright grumpy.

With that being said, I think I need to say to those that I have insulted, upset, injured, maimed, disabled, killed, burned, cut, ignited, infected, exacerbated, conjugated, instigated, generated, prognosticated, truncated, stimulated, immigrated, undulated, annulated, cannulated, pontificated, disintegrated, integrated, reintegrated, permeated, irrigated, angulated, inebriated, manipulated, granulated, simulated, trepannated, correlated, sporulated, vindicated, corrugated, obliterated, or just plain ticked off...

I am not sorry.
 
Some call him the gangster of love
 
Do you know the website for the 2010 coop wikepedia page?
 
wonder if there's any 2011 folks lurking out there....
 
Anybody remember how they told us in interviewing that the average physician interrupts the patient within 12 seconds of the interview or something like that?

Last night I saw an opthalmologist interrupt the patient every time he tried to say something...he couldn't get more than 3 or 4 words out. And the patient WAS trying to give valid information about his case. Finally he yelled "Doctor, please listen to me" for about the 3rd time and the doctor realized he was being a huge jackass and apologized and listed. This is also the same doctor that told the patient he was "stupid" (yes, he literally said "stupid") for driving to his own eye surgery.

Once again my general dislike of doctors continues.

One other thing...this doctor had a WWJD? bracelet on...I found that ironic, because I doubt Jesus would interrupt anyone.
 
well that blew but I'm done.

The chancerito was packed last night. Were those M2s?
 
Did anybody else stop by to say goodbye to your donor today?

I realized how much I learned from him, and I feel as if I let him down by not learning enough.
 
Did either of you, prowler....samenewme, get the answers for today's exams? I went in there just a minute ago and they took 'em down already.
 
awww poor wittle baby... You're going to hawaii and I'm in milwaukee, wisconsin.
 
How much does it cost to fly from here to ha-wa-ee?
 
samenewme said:
Did anybody else stop by to say goodbye to your donor today?

I realized how much I learned from him, and I feel as if I let him down by not learning enough.
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I did when I finished.
 
Today was such a waste. First, I was fairly hungover. Took someone to the airport. Came home. Exhaused. Took a "nap." It was like 1:30, and didn't wake up again til 8. Crap. Just wasted $10 on the Farewell to Finals party since it started at 7, and the earliest I would've gotten there would've been 9. The food probably would've been gone by then, so I didn't go. At least the money went to a good cause.

I plan on driving home tomorrow, and I have a lot to do between now and then. So hopefully I caught up on my sleep so I can get up early. Ashleigh, I don't feel bad for you spending time in the airport. I'm driving farther North to go home.

Didn't go to the Chancery last night. Spent the evening the old fashioned way at someone's house with a keg and card games and some jello that I really shouldn't have eaten.
 
akpete said:
Today was such a waste. First, I was fairly hungover. Took someone to the airport. Came home. Exhaused. Took a "nap." It was like 1:30, and didn't wake up again til 8. Crap. Just wasted $10 on the Farewell to Finals party since it started at 7, and the earliest I would've gotten there would've been 9. The food probably would've been gone by then, so I didn't go. At least the money went to a good cause.

I plan on driving home tomorrow, and I have a lot to do between now and then. So hopefully I caught up on my sleep so I can get up early. Ashleigh, I don't feel bad for you spending time in the airport. I'm driving farther North to go home.

Didn't go to the Chancery last night. Spent the evening the old fashioned way at someone's house with a keg and card games and some jello that I really shouldn't have eaten.
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all i had time for was one beer after getting home from work on thursday. 🙁
 
indo said:
Thanks. I got them from Samenewme.


How 'bout that techno ehh?
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I love Mantra 😛 I've had a few good experiences stemming from that place, so.....unfortunately, my wife was kind of tired, so it wasn't too exciting last night. Sure ran into a lot of people from school there though.
 
It seemed like a nice club but I would change a couple things. I would make it non smoking and non-techno or at least better dance beats. But, you're right, it was a good atmosphere.
 
indo said:
It seemed like a nice club but I would change a couple things. I would make it non smoking and non-techno or at least better dance beats. But, you're right, it was a good atmosphere.
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yeah, they could use some better ventilation, for sure, and they don't always play techno. Some of the other times I've gone, they had much better dance music.
 
indo said:
How much does it cost to fly from here to ha-wa-ee?
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My ticket was originally $500 when we bought it in April, then when I found out in July, that M2s were done on Thursday, my parents paid another 1000 to change the date and reroute me not through Dallas, but then American put me through dallas again. ugh

samenewme said:
Did anybody else stop by to say goodbye to your donor today?

I realized how much I learned from him, and I feel as if I let him down by not learning enough.
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Last year before all the finals were done, Splat and I went to gather our dissector kits, Nasty Netters and dissection guides, and then ENT people started coming in. Apparently later that night they started listening to techno while removing the temporal bone or something.

TheProwler said:
yeah, they could use some better ventilation, for sure, and they don't always play techno. Some of the other times I've gone, they had much better dance music.
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What's wrong with techno? Where's this club? It sounds fun. I haven't been clubbing since living in England.

stupid jet lag... I can't sleep. I've been up since 2:30 here, which is 6:30 in WI. It's not even light yet, so that means I can't run to the beach yet for a swim because sharks like dawn/dusk.
 
Ashers said:
What's wrong with techno? Where's this club? It sounds fun. I haven't been clubbing since living in England.

stupid jet lag... I can't sleep. I've been up since 2:30 here, which is 6:30 in WI. It's not even light yet, so that means I can't run to the beach yet for a swim because sharks like dawn/dusk.
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Nothing's wrong with techno, and sometimes I'm in the mood for it, but it's not really dance music, IMO. You can move to it, but if you want to dance with someone else (e.g., the wife), you're kinda SOL. The place is Mantra Lounge, which is beneath Beans & Barley on North Avenue, just east of Oakland Ave. It's right by UWM, and I think it has a great vibe. Earlier in the night, it's quieter, and I like to go sit in the smaller lounge area. They play movies on the plasma screens, and they've got tables like you'd find at a much more expensive place, but it's not too pricey at all. As the night goes on, the music gets much louder, and the place gets kinda packed a lot, and then most people start dancing. It's also got a VIP-looking area, but it's open access.
 
TheProwler said:
Nothing's wrong with techno, and sometimes I'm in the mood for it, but it's not really dance music, IMO. You can move to it, but if you want to dance with someone else (e.g., the wife), you're kinda SOL. The place is Mantra Lounge, which is beneath Beans & Barley on North Avenue, just east of Oakland Ave. It's right by UWM, and I think it has a great vibe. Earlier in the night, it's quieter, and I like to go sit in the smaller lounge area. They play movies on the plasma screens, and they've got tables like you'd find at a much more expensive place, but it's not too pricey at all. As the night goes on, the music gets much louder, and the place gets kinda packed a lot, and then most people start dancing. It's also got a VIP-looking area, but it's open access.
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i agree. techno sucks for dancing with your wife.
 
Eazy-E, on the other hand, is perfect for romantic dances.
 
I'm watching the science of Ninja fighting on the national geographic channel. It says the ninja's main target is the Vagus nerve. Can a shot to the vagus nerve cause your heart to stop?
 
During the female athlete triad lecture the sports medicine physician pointed at a powerpoint slide and said "LOOKIT!". That is when I stopped listening to her.
 
indo said:
During the female athlete triad lecture the sports medicine physician pointed at a powerpoint slide and said "LOOKIT!". That is when I stopped listening to her.
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This is your criterion for a speaker's expertise and credibility? Hey, it's not like she said, "Lookadat dere!"
 
indo said:
During the female athlete triad lecture the sports medicine physician pointed at a powerpoint slide and said "LOOKIT!". That is when I stopped listening to her.
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I somehow managed to not attend that lecture, and I have no idea where I was that day. I hope I was asleep or something.
 
samenewme said:
This is your criterion for a speaker's expertise and credibility? Hey, it's not like she said, "Lookadat dere!"
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Kolesari says that. "Oh yah, lookadat thoracic duct dere and what could this be...it looks like the brachiocephalic dere". ha.

Actually when I heard "lookit" I figured she had a young child.


Hey samenewme! My mom grew up in Kenner, LA. Actually there is a telephone pole with parts of her 68 mustang lodged in it still. It was on a street with 4 lanes that were seperated by a large drainage ditch. That is all I remember. Oh, and my Nana lived near an airport where a plane once crashed into a hotel that had a whole bunch of girls who had just graduated high school in it.
 
indo said:
Kolesari says that. "Oh yah, lookadat thoracic duct dere and what could this be...it looks like the brachiocephalic dere". ha.

Actually when I heard "lookit" I figured she had a young child.


Hey samenewme! My mom grew up in Kenner, LA. Actually there is a telephone pole with parts of her 68 mustang lodged in it still. It was on a street with 4 lanes that were seperated by a large drainage ditch. That is all I remember. Oh, and my Nana lived near an airport where a plane once crashed into a hotel that had a whole bunch of girls who had just graduated high school in it.
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Could be West Esplanade, Airline Highway, or Veterans Boulevard. Those ditches are the canals that go to the pumping stations and out into the lake to drain the bad, bad rain away. It's just storm runoff, but in the summer, sometimes they stink to high heaven. The New Orleans International Airport is actually in the City of Kenner, and I lived near it, too, for much of my life. In fact, my parents' condo is in Kenner, and that's where I'll be spending Christmas, singing with my mom in the choir.
 
Yawn. Just got out of bed after having some dreams that sound like they were induced by a massive dose of acid. I don't think I'll point out to my wife that I woke up 9 hours later than she did (for work). 😛

I'm about to look for the nearest Toys R Us, because I want to buy some Legos. Someone on another forum directed me to this site - directions for every Lego set ever - and now I need to scratch the Lego itch. Last time this happened, I bought one of the biggest, most expensive Technic sets (the F1 car). Just because I could. It was only like $70, but when I was 8, that might as well have been $7 million.
 
TheProwler said:
Yawn. Just got out of bed after having some dreams that sound like they were induced by a massive dose of acid. I don't think I'll point out to my wife that I woke up 9 hours later than she did (for work). 😛

I'm about to look for the nearest Toys R Us, because I want to buy some Legos. Someone on another forum directed me to this site - directions for every Lego set ever - and now I need to scratch the Lego itch. Last time this happened, I bought one of the biggest, most expensive Technic sets (the F1 car). Just because I could. It was only like $70, but when I was 8, that might as well have been $7 million.
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Legos? Wow. I did not have Legos. Most of my toys were hand-me-downs (which, actually, I loved--there was some REALLY GOOD STUFF) and Legos, being little, don't hand down very well. I had seven of them.

On the other hand, I had oodles of those corrugated cardboard blocks you could make forts out of. 🙂
 
indo said:
I'm watching the science of Ninja fighting on the national geographic channel. It says the ninja's main target is the Vagus nerve. Can a shot to the vagus nerve cause your heart to stop?
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I don't know about stop, but it would slow it down for sure, as the vagus is chock full of parasympathetic nerve fibers.

Legos rule.
 
Bad news, Indo...looks like the Class of 2011 thread starter decided to put a bunch of asterixes in the thread title.
 
Andy15430 said:
Bad news, Indo...looks like the Class of 2011 thread starter decided to put a bunch of asterixes in the thread title.
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Who cares about the asterisks? I'm more concerned about you traitors posting over there and giving them the freedom to start their own thread. Don't you know that much like the Borg, this thread must assimilate all MCW students?
 
TheProwler said:
so, wouldn't it speed up without the parasympathetic fibers?
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without getting into too much phys...and realizing that I, unlike the good Dr. Funk, am not a ninja...

I would speculate that ninjas aren't actually transecting the vagus, but rather are stimulating it somehow (like by hitting it).

This is the principle behind vagal maneuvers used for supraventricular tachycardias...

you can stimulate the vagus by
1.bearing down/gagging/coughing
2.plunging your face into ice water
3.pressing on your eyeballs
4.carotid sinus massage (actually parasympathetic via Hering's nerve via CN IX, but same idea... and don't forget to listen for bruits!!)

this all increases parasympathetic tone, slowing the heart.

but I'd have to agree that if a ninja actually severed the vagus that you would lose the parasympathetics, and increase the heart rate. This is basically what you do when you use atropine for bradycardia (or are careless when doing a carotid endarterectomy). If you give enough (4mg or so), it is referred to as a "vagolytic" dose, meaning that you are pharmacologically blocking all of the parasympathetic input to the heart.

As a side note, I saw an attending totally yell at a senior resident for carelessly grabbing the vagus during a CEA.
"you've got to respect the tissues, dammit!!!"
 
donnyfire said:
without getting into too much phys...and realizing that I, unlike the good Dr. Funk, am not a ninja...

I would speculate that ninjas aren't actually transecting the vagus, but rather are stimulating it somehow (like by hitting it).

This is the principle behind vagal maneuvers used for supraventricular tachycardias...

you can stimulate the vagus by
1.bearing down/gagging/coughing
2.plunging your face into ice water
3.pressing on your eyeballs
4.carotid sinus massage (actually parasympathetic via Hering's nerve via CN IX, but same idea... and don't forget to listen for bruits!!)

this all increases parasympathetic tone, slowing the heart.

but I'd have to agree that if a ninja actually severed the vagus that you would lose the parasympathetics, and increase the heart rate. This is basically what you do when you use atropine for bradycardia (or are careless when doing a carotid endarterectomy). If you give enough (4mg or so), it is referred to as a "vagolytic" dose, meaning that you are pharmacologically blocking all of the parasympathetic input to the heart.

As a side note, I saw an attending totally yell at a senior resident for carelessly grabbing the vagus during a CEA.
"you've got to respect the tissues, dammit!!!"
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I was just thinking about Hering's Nerve today. I'm sure Funk could train you in the ways of the ninja if you wanted.

So my goal of not doing anything medical today was kinda shot. First I went kayaking -- fine, that's not medical. Then had lunch with my family -- ok, not too medical, except I heard about the surgery my dad has to do tomorrow (15 yo kid, 400lb, with an ankle fx). Then I decided to go up and visit the hospital where I used to work. I stood around talking to people, and then I went an was looking at the heme section of the lab, since I was a vampire. The heme lab tech was like "Oh! We have all these excellent slides of things you can look at!" So I spent an hour looking at slides of different leukemias, thick and thin malaria smears, anemias, a couple adenocarcinomas, some pleural effusions, etc. Pretty cool. I liked the nRBCs.
 
Ashers said:
I was just thinking about Hering's Nerve today. I'm sure Funk could train you in the ways of the ninja if you wanted.

So my goal of not doing anything medical today was kinda shot. First I went kayaking -- fine, that's not medical. Then had lunch with my family -- ok, not too medical, except I heard about the surgery my dad has to do tomorrow (15 yo kid, 400lb, with an ankle fx). Then I decided to go up and visit the hospital where I used to work. I stood around talking to people, and then I went an was looking at the heme section of the lab, since I was a vampire. The heme lab tech was like "Oh! We have all these excellent slides of things you can look at!" So I spent an hour looking at slides of different leukemias, thick and thin malaria smears, anemias, a couple adenocarcinomas, some pleural effusions, etc. Pretty cool. I liked the nRBCs.
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That's neat. I played Xbox and drank apple cider with rum in it.
 
Ohhh, and guess who's getting his cholesterol checked Friday, just for fun???

Everybody throw out a "best guess" number. The person closest to my actual cholesterol wins a big huge mofo hug!!!!

(hint: my mom, her mom, and brother all have high cholesterol with low cholesterol diets...i have a high cholesterol diet)
 
Agent Splat said:
Ohhh, and guess who's getting his cholesterol checked Friday, just for fun???

Everybody throw out a "best guess" number. The person closest to my actual cholesterol wins a big huge mofo hug!!!!

(hint: my mom, her mom, and brother all have high cholesterol with low cholesterol diets...i have a high cholesterol diet)
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So that means you'll have low cholesterol with a high cholesterol diet right?

Have you ever had mulled wine? That stuffs good. Spiked cider reminded me of it, since I usually make cider with mulling spices.
 
Agent Splat said:
Ohhh, and guess who's getting his cholesterol checked Friday, just for fun???

Everybody throw out a "best guess" number. The person closest to my actual cholesterol wins a big huge mofo hug!!!!

(hint: my mom, her mom, and brother all have high cholesterol with low cholesterol diets...i have a high cholesterol diet)
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1*10^3
 
Agent Splat said:
Ohhh, and guess who's getting his cholesterol checked Friday, just for fun???

Everybody throw out a "best guess" number. The person closest to my actual cholesterol wins a big huge mofo hug!!!!

(hint: my mom, her mom, and brother all have high cholesterol with low cholesterol diets...i have a high cholesterol diet)
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total: 209
 
Agent Splat said:
Ohhh, and guess who's getting his cholesterol checked Friday, just for fun???

Everybody throw out a "best guess" number. The person closest to my actual cholesterol wins a big huge mofo hug!!!!

(hint: my mom, her mom, and brother all have high cholesterol with low cholesterol diets...i have a high cholesterol diet)
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My official prediction:

Cholesterol: 220
Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) Test: Positive
 
Agent Splat said:
Ohhh, and guess who's getting his cholesterol checked Friday, just for fun???

Everybody throw out a "best guess" number. The person closest to my actual cholesterol wins a big huge mofo hug!!!!

(hint: my mom, her mom, and brother all have high cholesterol with low cholesterol diets...i have a high cholesterol diet)
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235, but I want the Prowler to win so I can see him get the big mofo hug!
 
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